Families tend to work together on farms and rice growing so you are asking for a change of lifestyle.
Why the carrot and stick approach? you are British and your wife is Malay so why the interest in that part of the P.I.
Would I be right in thinking there might be some religious intent behind it such as,
Quaker, 7 th day Adv, Muslim, Janism etc only I do think the P.I. is oversubscribed to religion.![]()